The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-28
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land.
A Chicago colony is making arrange
ments TO locate in Nevada county, Cali
fornis.
a new Democratic paper will soon be es-
tablished at Concord, n. H, by a stock
company with capital of $4,000.
The State OF Pennsylvania has purches-
ed from ex-Attorney General Brewster his
large law library. The price was $I8, 500.
Diamonds are found at present in five
counties of California, as follows: Anna
dor, Butte, FL Dorado, Nevada and Trim
ity.
The oldest woman in Gloucester, Mass,
is Mrs. Mary II. Gilbert, who was 101 year
old on Thursday last, and who is still
vigorous old lady.
The inhabitants of the valleys of the
high Sierras are signalling the autumn by
cutting down their bee-t-ees and sailing
down their bear meat.
By failing to furnish q bonus of $50, 900
within ninety days, Port Townsend, Wash.
iDgton Territory, lost the Methodist Uni
Versity location last Monday.
Nine men have tesn killed within tie
past two weeks in the Toronto basin, All
IONA Territory, in the feuds between the
Lewksbery and Graham factions.
comes from walking on pavements, an
elastic india-rubbeT boot-heel is recon-
mended II place OF the perfectly hard
heel.
When you see man look at his watch
and put it back into his pocket, ask him
the time and IN nine cases out OF ten ne
can not tell you until he has looked at it
again.
Horace I. Cook has Just been nominated
for Treasurer of Cayuga county, n. Y, for
the fortieth consecutive time. He has been
elected every time ne was nominated here
tofore.
Abraham Souther, colored man of Old
Fort, N. c., hss in his possession doca-
ments which SHOW that he Is l07 years old.
He ehews and smokes and is a devout
methodist.
An English physician Who read a learn
ed paper before the medical congress in
Washin gtC was given vote of thanks ex-
pressed IN French, the proposition being
seconded in German.
1t costs railroad company $500 more u
put up 1000 signs reading LOOK out for
the locomotive than the same number
reading Danger" Aud the latter are the
most effective, TOO.
When Epbraim Elmer Ellsworth Post,
G.. A. r was organized the other eveuing e
in Troy. Capt. Ephraim D. Ellsworth. re-
tired United States officer, 76 years old,
and the father of Col. Els worth, was
present, and was evidently deeply moved
BY she exercises.
A citizen of Providence, R. I, m 4kes
many collar by catching bats, which ne
sells to taxidermists for fifty cents apiece.
He fasteDs fish hook to the end of a long
horsewhip, and on the hook he fastens a
moth miller. Then standing near an
electric in the evening he waves the whip
until one of the manv bats which are
hunting the insects that fy around the
light grabs the miller, and then he yanks
him in.
Maurice Thompson suggests some COM
pensatiOn for the hunter who does not fi0d
his game. He says: "Take my advice
Leave of sentimentality that stops at
your palate and 60 quailshooting Just for
once. Tramp four hours in the fields,
climb fences, wade through brier patches,
breathe pure air. III you find no quail. my
word for 1t, you will find an appetite that
will make you glad to eat bacon"
Allen Thompson, an old Mount Wash
ington guide, says that he never carries q
| compass in the woods. "There are three
sure ways" says he, that haYe for find
ing the points OF the compass. You will
| notice that three-fourths of the moss on
trees grow on the north side, the heaviest
| boughs on spruce trees are always on the
south side, and thirdly, the topmost twig
| of every uninjured hemlock tips to the
east"
One of the probable effects of rapid
transit in Brooklyn will be the lowering in
| value of residence property in New York
| City. Real-estate owners are closely
| watching events. Those in Gotham are
| appIeheDsive of a decrease in their hold
iugs, and those in Brooklyn are expecting
a boom in all tine 'unimproved lots OF the
City of Churches. Another result that is
| likely to come from Brooklyn's elevated
roads is an unusual development toward
| the ocean.
at Sumner, Ga, the other evening, two
| gentlemen, walking mp the railroad track
toward the station, where one of them
/ was going to take the next train, was much
| surprised by the whistling of two pistol
balls past their ears. One of the gentle
| men pulled his own pistol and shouted
''If that's your game, I'm in" Then q
| third gentlemen emerged from the gloom
and sppolOgized. He had mistaken them
for tramps tampering with the rails, and
had opened fire on tasm under that mis-
apprehension.
The keeper of leading hotel at Sarato.
ga says he gets very tired of hotel fare al
times. "Once in a while" be says "I 90
and hunt up my steward or some other
employe who has his family with him In
the village, and / say: May 90 to your
house to dinner to-dayY / go there, aud
as l eat the corned beef and cabbage OF
Irish stew. or whatever the wife puts be.
fore me, ] think 1 never tasted food so
good. After that eat all my meals at the
hotel for awhile, and then hunt up an.
other old-fashioned dish in some simple
little home"
The following story is told as illustrating
Gen. Won MoltKe's nearness. One day he
stopped at an inn and asked for glass OF
beer. The landlord. instead of drawing
the common five-pfennig beer, thought the
| General should have the double" or ten
/ pfennig beer. The Field Marshal praised
the beer and placed on the table a ten
| pfeDDig piece, which the landlord took.
Moltke left without saying a word. A few
days later he visited the same inn again,
and ordered glass of beer. Again double
beer was brought. Moltke said: "When
| was here last gave you ten pfennig, aud
/ as you gave me nothing back l was five
pfennig to the good, 30 that we are now
straight" The landlord remarked that he
had drawn double beer, which cost ten
| pfenDig. ooh, but i did not order double
beer" said the great soldier, and he drove
away smiling.
Keeper Maest of the Erie county aims
house says that 10 his experience one Of
the peculiar freaks of insanity is the seem
ing reversal of natural tendencies. "For in